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YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLIC SERVICE LXVIU HRST SAVANNAH NEGRO SOLDIER KILLED IN ACTION IN KOREA Pvt. David Sidney Walker The first Savannah Negro soldier killed in the Korean war was Pvt. David Sidney Walker. His death was re¬ vealed in a dispatch sent to Mrs. Eliza Haynes of 804 West Fifty-third street, his cousin, by the War Depart¬ ment, stating that he was killed on September 20. Frivate Walker who would have been 20 years old on November 22, enlisted in the army on February 3, loot), and trained at Ft. Dix, N.\ J., and Camp Stonew r all, Cal. He went to Japan in June and then to Korea. ,‘ v *,He was born in West Savannah on Exley street, and attended Woodville and Cuyler schools. He, with sev¬ eral of his brothers and sisters, went to live with his cousin, Mrs. Haynes, after the death of their mother. (Continued on Page Three) Everything of Ready for Opening Fair Coastal Dr. Collier, Sr., Knifed By Hold-up Assailant The timely entrance of his son, Dr. H. M. Collier, Jr., into his father’s office about 7:30 Tuesday night probably saved Dr. H. M. Collier, Sr., from seri¬ ous, if not fatal, irruries from a knife in the hand of a 26- year-old hold-up man. The hold-up attack at the 707 West Broad street office of the elder Dr. Collier, occurred im¬ mediately after the technician left for home. The assailant entered the office and told the doctor he wanted to be examined for some social disease. He was taken into a back room and as the debtor prepared to examine jhv/tec pulled a knife billfold. and de tended the doctor’s The doctor refused to compl with the hold-up man’s demand and the two became engaged ii a scuffle. Dr. Collier was cut slightly about the hand, and the leg and on the back of the neex. The hold-up man was cut on the hand when the doctoi closed the knife on his assail- (Continued on Page Three) HEADS LA. MASONS—w. T Meade Grant Jr., 33 is president general and grand master of the Most Worshipful St. Andrew Grand Lodge AF A AM tor the State of Louisiana. Inc., and Masonic Jurisdiction which met ’ recently in New Orleans. j BAPTIST MINISTERS AT NA- TIONAL M E E T—Among the 7,000 delegates who attended the recent National Baptist convention, Inc., in Philadel- Negroes Saved Over 700 Million The National Negro insurance Assoclation which recently opened its national office head- quarters in Chicago at 4339 Drexel Boulevard, announced this week that the more than four million Negroes holding policies issued by the fitfy-eight SAVANNAH, GEORGIA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1950 To Appeal Decision Educa¬ tional Facilities Equal inN.C. GREENSBORO, N. C„ Oct. 10 —The decision of Federal Judge Johnson J, Hayes that educa¬ tional facilities are equal at the North Carolina Law school and the North Carolina college at Durham, will cause the four Negroes who sought to enter the white law school at Chapel Hill to appeal the ruling of Judge Hayes. Judge Hayes handed down the decision yesterday on the first suit of this nature to favor the defendants. Earlier, the U. S. Supreme Court had reaffirmed its ruling that Texas and Mary¬ land must admit Negroes to state universities if equal facil¬ ities are not otherwise provid¬ ed. hast week the attorney general of Tennessee ruled in favor of a group of Negro stud¬ ents in his state. Judge Hayes agreed with North Carolina Attorney Gen¬ eral Harry McMullan that North Carolina College in Durham had a law school equal to the state university's. Dr. Erwin Griswold, dean of the Harvard Law school, was among the wit¬ nesses who testified that the fa¬ cilities were not equal. “It is impossible for any two schools to offer the greatest educational effect if they prac¬ tice the policy of racial seg¬ regation,” Griswold said., “On every point of comparision, North Carolina College is sec¬ ondary to the University ol North Carolina.” McMullan said, “Our success Continued on Page Six A Boy A son was born October 6th to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rice of Rosignoll Hill. He will bd named John Carroll Rice. phia were ministers from Bap -1 tist churches throughout the country. Shown below are some of the nation’s best known Baptist leaders. member companies of the as- ! sociation saved $789,358,801 in insurance during 1949. Murray J Marvin, executive director of the association, re- ports that the statistician's fig- ures reveal that over $300 mil- lion more could have been Court Orders Louisiana To Withdraw Racial Ban at White Law School NEW ORLEANS. La.—(ANP) —The white Louisiana State university law school will have to admit a Negro student. Saturday a t h r e e-member Federal District court enjoined the board of supervisdrs of LSU from denying Roy S. Wilson of Ruston, La., admittance to the law school solely because of his race and color. Judge J. Skelly Wright handed down the decision, and Judge Hebert W. Christenberry and Wayne G. Boarh concurred in the opinion. Judge Borah is from the local Circuit court. In a brief opinion, Judge Wright said: "We held, in conformity with the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, that the plaintiff and all others similar¬ ly qualified and situated are entitled to educational advan¬ tages and opportunities avail¬ able within the state, at the same time, upon the same terms and substantially equal to those which the state provides and makes available to other resi¬ dents and citizens of the state.” In giving its opinion, the court cited four other cases in¬ cluding the recent U. S. Sup¬ reme court action in the Sweatt case in Texas. The opinion The Coastal Empire Fair opens Monday, Oct. 16th, at one o’clocx when Mayor Olin F. Fulmer and Chairman Jas. P. Houlihan of County Com- (Continued on Page Three) Top, left: Tire Rev. D. V. Jem- ison, center, of Selma, Aia., president of the convention, receives a plaque from the Rev, William H. Gray of the Afro- saved if an additional policyholders had not permit¬ ted their policies to lapse. “It it in the iriterejt of sav¬ ing this additional three hun¬ dred million dollars that Na¬ tional Save Your Policy Month’’ is observed this year during continued: “The court is of the opinion that the action of the defend¬ ant board of supervisors of the Louisiana aiate university . . . in denying admission to the plaintiff of the department of law solely because of his race and color denies a right guar¬ anteed to the plaintiff by the 14th amendment and that en¬ forcement of the order, pending final hearing, would inflict irreparable damage upon the plaintiff.” The court action overrode the. defendant’s argument that Southern university’s Negro law school was equal to that of LSU. Whether or not the state would appeal was not announced. The case arose when the LSU board of supervisors refused Wilson’s application to the law school because of his race. In doing so the board passed a resolution in which it upheld the principle of segregation and Cc”tinuei> on Page Six Maryland I niv. Told to Admit j to Court fast-crumbling regation BALTIMORE, ■■ in higher October walls edi of nation 5—The seg¬ suffered another blow this week when the Baltimore City Coprt issued an opinion confirming the contention of the National As¬ sociation for the Advancement of Colored People that the har- ring of Negro students of the University of Maryland from the university’s College Park campus constituted a denial of the equal protection of the laws. Continued on Page 7 American newspapers. Looking on at left is Rev. C. C. Adams of Philadelphia, secretary of the Foreign Mission board. Top, right: Revs. J. Roland ! Last Year j October, stated , Mr. „ Marvin. . J. D. Grantham, chairman of the National “Save Your Pol- icy Month” committee, pointed out that an analysis of .the causes for this tremendous less Continued on Page six 5 M * GRIFFIN TRIPLETS FETED— Jewel, Jerry and Jeris, the Griffin triplets, children of Mr. and Mrs. Cape'rs Griffin of 317 Yamacraw Village, were feted with a birthlay party sponsored by the Women’s Auxiliary to the Cooking Demonstration at Beach High School Tomorrow Fri. Night A gala cooking demonstration with a grand prize of a Maytag Dutch oven gas range valued at $309.95 will be presented by the Savannah Gas Company at the Beach High School auditorium (Continued on page Six) Smith, Atlanta, statistician ol the convention; G. Luke lines, head of the Presbyterian Home Mission board and annual Book- er T, Washington program speaker; William II. Jerttagin, president of the BTU ana S. S. Congress; Rev. Toyohiko Kagowa, philosopher, author and evangelist of Japan: E . w. Perry, Oklahoma City, 1st vice president of the eouven- tiOn; u. J. Robinson. Mobile, Ala., secretary of the conven¬ tion; and Rev. B J. Perkins, (.Continued on Page Three) Member Audit Bureau Circulations Price 7c South Atlantic Medical Society. This famous trio was born Oct. 9, 1S40, and since that time the ladies of the S. A. M. S. have assumed the welfare of these children as one of their pet projects. The comfittee, headed Lincoln Univ Gives $111000 In Awards LINCOLN UNIVERSITY. Pa. —(ANP) — Lincoln university students will receive more than si 11,000 hi scholarship and work assistance during the coming chool year. Scholarships awarded to Pa students from special funds provided for this purpose will reach the $56,000 mark. Schol¬ arships for upper-classmen awarded on the basis of superi¬ or standing in their past clas* work at Lincoln, will amount to $12,000. Fresh men scholarships awarded on the basis of high standing in national compet¬ itive examinations, will exceed $ 8 , 000 . Special scholarship funds fo African students will amount to $3,500: Lincoln university will enroll 30 such students thi: year, and African organization' are expected to match th< University scholarship donation' with an additional $10,000 ir grants for African student alone. Students are expected to ean $22,000 in various student jobs ranging from pot-washer in the university dining hall to a high- ly skilled technical assistant the chemistry laboratory. CHICAGO BAR ASSN. ACCEPT 2ND WOMAN __ . CHICAGO i ANP)—The Chi- cago Bar association has accept- ed its second Negro woman member, Miss Lucia T Thomas Tne CBA. which for many years would not accept a Negro member of any sex, lifted its bars some six years ago, and now has about a dozen ' members. Mrs. Jewel Stradford a graduate of the University of Chicago law school, was the first colored woman member.' Miss Thomas, who wa, notified 6! her election last month, u the second. She is a graduate of Terrell Law School in Wash- ington and John Marshall law school in Chicago. NtJMEBR 52 by Mrs. H. , Sr., as chairman, H. M. Coll ler Jr.. J. H. Eberhardt, Mrs. J. E. Fonvielle, visited the Griffin home to pre¬ sent birthday gifts to the trip¬ lets.—Photo by Freeman HEADS NEGRO DIVISION— Walter S. Scott, prominent bus¬ iness man, has been named to head the Negro division of the 1951 Community Chest fund appeal, Frank O. Wahlstrom, general campaign chairman, announced today. Named to serve with Mr. Scott as vice chairmen were Dr. J. E. Fonvielle and E. c. Black- shear. Heads of this division will set up their organization to -secure Red Feather contribu¬ tions from Negro business es¬ tablishments, Negro schools, and house to house solicitation. Prominent In local bus¬ iness and civic circles, Mr. Scott is president of the Guar- anty Life Insurance Company, and a member of the board of United Community Services and the West Broad Street YMCA. Dr. Fonvielle is owner of a chain of local drug stores, and a director of the West Broad Street Y. Mr. Blackshear is manager of Fellwood Homes, All three of these men have taken active parts in Commun- ity Chest appeals in the past, The community Chest cam- paign tills year is combining the fund appeals of 28 seperate agencies into one. The goal for the campaign is 5347,500, de- scribed by Campaign Chairman Wahlstrom as “the bare mini- mum needed by the Chest health, welfare. i$nd recreation organizations to continue on an adequate foiling during 1951,” ---- —— - Headlines and color may fool readers but they do not make a newspaper. *